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	Court Reverses Ruling on Jane Akre's rBGH Suit
		In the lawsuit filed in 1998, Akre claimed she was wrongfully terminated for threatening to blow the whistle to the FCC.
		After a five-week trial that ended August 18, 2000, a six-person jury was unanimous in its conclusion that she was indeed fired for threatening report the station's pressure to broadcast what jurors decided was "a false, distorted, or slanted" story about the widespread use of growth hormone in dairy cows.
		Akre and Wilson were meeting with their attorneys to discuss a possible appeal of the ruling to Florida's Supreme Court and are expected to have an announcement and further comment soon.
	organicconsumers.org /rbgh/akre022103.cfm (529 words)

	Tampabay: Reporter wins suit over firing
		Jurors accept Jane Akre's claim that she was wrongfully fired by Channel 13 in a dispute over a story.
		Akre and Wilson found that at least seven Florida farmers were continuing to use BGH, suggesting that Florida grocers could not claim their milk was BGH-free.
		Akre was working as a fill-in anchor for Bay News 9, but said she has gotten no calls from the station since the start of the trial.
	www.sptimes.com /News/081900/TampaBay/Reporter_wins_suit_ov.shtml (810 words)

	Monsanto rBGH
		Jane Akre and Steve Wilson are bulldog reporters-the sort of journalists who make some enemies along the way.
		Jane Akre has been a reporter and news anchor for twenty years at network affiliates in Tucson, St. Louis, San Francisco, Miami, and at CNN.
		Akre had recently given birth to the couple's first child, and Wilson hoped that signing up with a local station would give him the chance to spend more time at home and less on the road.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Environment/Monsanto_rBGH.html (1871 words)

	Jane Akre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jane Akre and her husband Steve Wilson are former employees of FOX owned-and-operated station WTVT in Tampa, Florida.
		In 1997, they were fired from Fox News after refusing to include knowingly false information in their report concerning the Monsanto Corporation's use of BGH.
		This would be the sixth time that FOX had used this argument in court.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jane_Akre (234 words)

	The My Hero Project - Jane Akre & Steve Wilson
		Akre and Wilson are 2001 recipients of the Goldman Environmental Prize.
		After a five-week trial, a Florida jury hearing the case decided that Fox had "acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort the plaintiffs' news reporting on BGH." Jane Akre was awarded damages for the loss of her job, and may also apply for reimbursement of her legal fees.
		Jane Akre & Steve Wilson won the 2001 Goldman Environmental Prize for their courageous journalism.
	myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=j_akre (1023 words)

	Lying and distorting the news OK in Florida
		Jane Akre and Steve Wilson are the two journalists fired by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox TV after they refused to rewrite a documentary investigation into Monsanto’s GM bovine growth hormone, BGH/Posilac, used to make cows produce more milk.
		Akre and Wilson had unearthed reports of serious side effects in cows treated with the hormone and also flagged up human health issues, but were asked to rewrite the report to make it more favourable to BGH/Monsanto.
		In overturning the jury on what amounts to a legal technicality, the court did not dispute the heart of Akre's claim, that Fox pressured her to broadcast a false story to protect the broadcaster from having to defend the truth in court, as well as suffer the ire of irate advertisers.
	ngin.tripod.com /190203a.htm (854 words)

	Jane Akre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		'''Jane Akre''', together with her husband Steve Wilson, were former employees of FOX News.
		However, FOX appealed and won, after the court declared that FCC policy against falsification that FOX violated was just a policy and not a "law, rule, or regulation", and so the whistle blower law did not apply.
		FOX did not dispute that that it tried to force Akre to broadcast a false story, but argued that broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports.
	jane-akre.iqnaut.net (151 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The three judge panel thus reversed the previous $$425,000 jury verdict in favor of journalist Jane Akre who charged she was pressured by FOX Television management and lawyers to air what she knew and documented to be false information concerning the widespread use of the Monsanto manufactured rBGH hormone.
		Akre and her TV producer-reporter husband Steve Wilson had prepared a WTVT/FOX13 documentary on how Florida dairymen had been secretly injecting the genetically engineered rBGH into their cows and how Florida supermarkets quietly reneged on promises not to sell milk from treated cows until the hormone gained widespread acceptance by consumers.
		Akre and Wilson responded in writing to WTVT threatening to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") alleging that the station had "illegally" edited the still unfinished BGH report in violation of an FCC policy against federally licensed broadcasters deliberately distorting the news.
	www.electricarrow.com /CARP/agbiz/224.htm (3279 words)

	Project Censored Media democracy in action
		Back in December of 1996, Jane Akre and her husband, Steve Wilson, were hired by FOX as a part of the Fox “Investigators” team at WTVT in Tampa Bay, Florida.
		Akre and Wilson sued the Fox station and on August 18, 2000, a Florida jury unanimously decided that Akre was wrongfully fired by Fox Television when she refused to broadcast (in the jury's words) “a false, distorted or slanted story” about the widespread use of BGH in dairy cows.
		Akre was awarded $425,000 in a jury trial with well-crafted arguments for their wrongful termination as whistleblowers.
	www.projectcensored.org /publications/2005/11.html (1063 words)

	Journalists, not Activists Steve Wilson, Jane Akre & Fox News by Liane Casten
		If any more proof was needed that we live in an upside-down world, the saga of TV news reporters Steve Wilson and Jane Akre serves as the definitive case study.
		In an appeal, however, Fox argued that the FCC policy against distortion of news did not qualify as "law:' and that therefore Akre and Wilson were not protected under the Florida act, which only protects those reporting an employer's violation of a "law, rule or regulation.
		Akre is still looking for a fulltime reporting job, but takes on assignments as Ilk they come.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Broadcast_Media/Wilson_Akre_FoxNews.html (731 words)

	Court TV Legal Documents: Reporters Sue Fox
		The Plaintiff, JANE AKRE, is of the age of majority, is sui juris, and resides in Pinellas County, Florida.
		Instead, when Plaintiff AKRE reported for work she was assigned, in clear violation of her employment agreement, to report on the vandalism of a vacant house, a purported "news story" that was not covered by any other station.
		Plaintiff AKRE returned and resumed working at the station beginning September 6, 1997 (still during the notification period) but never received any written notice until the day after the notification period when the VP-News provided her with written notification the station claims to have mailed.
	www.courttv.com /archive/legaldocs/misc/foxsuit.html (4294 words)

	Steve Wilson and Jane Akre: cheap, false martyrs?
		Wilson and Akre weren't very shrewd reporters, or they would have known that at that time the Planet and WTVT had several informal relationships, including sharing stories.
		The staff's opinions of Wilson and Akre were pretty unanimous - the husband-wife team was hellish to deal with, and what they were trying to do with the Monsanto story had more to do with propaganda than good journalism.
		That's not surprising for a guy who, as we reported, once referred to his wife as a "dumb bitch," and who once claimed to be delivering flowers in order to gain entry to a WTVT lawyer's condominium so that he could spy on the attorney.
	www.gene.ch /gentech/2000/Aug/msg00077.html (1290 words)

	Monsanto and Fox: Partners in Censorship - Center for Media and Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A visit by Akre to seven randomly-selected Florida dairy farms found that all seven were injecting their cows with the hormone.
		Akre and Wilson also offered to do a further interview with Monsanto and supplied a list of topics to be discussed.
		What followed next, according to Wilson and Akre, was a grueling nightmare of perpetual delays and station-mandated rewrites--73 in all, none of which proved satisfactory to station management.
	www.prwatch.org /prwissues/1998Q2/foxbgh.html (2686 words)

	The Austin Chronicle News: Out-Foxed
		If what television journalists Jane Akre and Steve Wilson allege is true, they are the victims of a textbook case of such cringing.
		According to Akre and Wilson, their then-employer, Fox-13 in Tampa, was set to run with the story -- until both station and Fox network management received a letter from lawyers for Monsanto, the agribusiness behemoth which produces rBGH.
		Akre and Wilson are coming to Austin on Wednesday, Feb. 9, to deliver a lecture at 7pm in the Bass Lecture Hall in Sid Richardson Hall on the UT campus.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-02-04/pols_media.html (1864 words)

	foxBGHsuit/SUIT PARTIES
		Jane Akre spent 20 years as a network and local television reporter and anchor before becoming the first journalist ever to win a whistleblower lawsuit against her own employer.
		On August 18, 2000, after a five-week trial, a jury agreed the reports Akre was pressured to air amounted to "a false, distorted or slanted" news report...and they awarded her $425,000 for her wrongful termination.
		Akre began her broadcasting career in Albuquerque as a radio news director.
	www.foxbghsuit.com /bgh3.htm (921 words)

	mediageek: On Today's Mediageek Radioshow: Former FOX TV Reporters Challenge KTVT's License
		Akre and Wilson are challening the station's license with the FCC, which is up for renewal.
		Akre and Wilson have provided some information about their case, including how to file comments with the FCC, which you can read after the jump.
		A six-person jury in August 2000 determined that the story Akre and Wilson were trying to broadcast was "false, distorted or slanted" in reaching a favorable whistleblower ruling for Akre.
	www.mediageek.org /archives/002477.html (500 words)

	Bogus Crusade, Deceitful Crusaders: While two ex-reporters beg for money, they quietly buy $1.4-million home: News: ...
		Wilson and Akre stake their fame on claims that WTVT tried to force them to print distorted and untrue news about a growth hormone used with cattle.
		After Akre's verdict was overturned, the couple turbocharged their fundraising by claiming they may have to pay Fox's legal costs, which, they say, "could amount to maybe $3-million." That's a gross exaggeration.
		Wilson and Akre had been soliciting funds for years, and had never told potential supporters they were quite capable of paying their own bills.
	tampa.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:3317 (2522 words)

	Jane Akre and Steve Wilson Win Goldman Award for Fox rBGH Story American Journalists Win top eco-award for cow hormone ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jane Akre and Steve Wilson of Clearwater, Fla., won an award for their investigations for Fox TV of rBGH, a genetically modified bovine growth hormone that is widely employed by the American dairy industry but is banned in Canada, Europe, New Zealand and Japan.
		Akre and Wilson continued to press Fox to run the original story, and were fired by the network in 1997.
		A jury found that Fox had pressured the reporters to broadcast a "false, distorted or slanted news report." Akre was awarded $425,000 for suffering job loss on improper grounds.
	www.mindfully.org /GE/GE2/Akre-Wilson-Goldman-rBGH.htm (1289 words)

	Educational CyberPlayGround: Environmental Activist Whistle blower reporters Akre and Wilson
		Akre also pointed out that "just as we expected, we continue to be `radioactive' as far as getting new jobs in the mainstream media and we remain essentially unemployed.
		Akre and Wilson, however, continued to press FOX to run their original story, and were subsequently fired by the network in 1997.
		Akre and Wilson sued FOX in 1998 for violating Florida's whistle-blower law.
	www.edu-cyberpg.com /IEC/reporters.html (1024 words)

	Court orders Akre-Wilson must pay trial costs for $24.3 billion Fox television
		Akre and Wilson have ended up having to take on not just Monsanto but America's corporate media and judiciary.
		Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, the two former FOX Television (WTVT-13) journalists have filed appeals of a ruling that they must pay the legal costs and fees the broadcaster incurred defending itself in a landmark whistleblower case the reporters filed in 1998.
		The ruling assessing the fees came on the heels of a ruling overturned a August 2000 jury verdict and $425,000 award to FOX investigative reporter Jane Akre.
	ngin.tripod.com /070303a.htm (899 words)

	ABCPsychic.com: RBGH Milk
		In the fall of 1996, award-winning reporters Steve Wilson and Jane Akre were hired by WTVT in Tampa to produce a series on rBGH in Florida milk.
		After more than a year's work on the rBGH series, and three days before the series was scheduled to air starting February 24, 1997, Fox TV executives received the first of two letters from lawyers representing Monsanto saying that Monsanto would suffer "enormous damage" if the series ran.
		His wife, Jane Akre, has been a reporter and news anchor for 20 years, and has won a prestigious Associated Press award for investigative reporting.
	www.abcpsychic.com /rgbhmilk.html (1646 words)

	Reporters Jane Akre and Steve Wilson Blow Whistle On News Station: Florida Milk Supply Riddled with Artificial Hormone ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Instead, Wilson and Akre allege, Boylan ordered the reporters to broadcast a version which contained demonstrably false information and he threatened to fire them both within 48 hours if they refused.
		Instead of being fired, the complaint continues, Boylan offered to release both reporters from further obligations and pay them full salary for the balance of their contracts if they would only agree never to discuss the BGH story or how it was handled by the station.
		Akre says she visited seven Florida dairy farms at random early last year where she confirmed use of the hormone at each and every one.
	www.mindfully.org /GE/Akre-Wilson-Fox-TV2apr98.htm (1559 words)

	Vegan News - In the News
		In a landmark whistleblower case based out of Tampa, FL, journalist Jane Akre was awarded damages of $425,000 after the jury found that Fox News took retaliatory personnel action against her for threatening to expose their refusal to broadcast a report she made that was critical of Monsanto's recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH).
		Wilson, who represented himself in the courtroom, was portrayed as a "difficult" employee during his tenure at the station for his refusal to lie during a broadcast, leading the jury to determine that there may have been other factors that lead to his being fired.
		When Akre and Wilson refused to slant their report to the satisfaction of Monsanto and Fox, they were dismissed from the station.
	www.veganstreet.com /news/00_08_09.html (634 words)

	The Corporation Film: Archives: October 11, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although Florida judge Vivian Maye recently denied a motion to force journalists Jane Akre and Steve Wilson to pay $1.8 million in Fox legal bills, she has decided the two are still on the hook for nearly $200,000 Fox spent at trial and on appeal.
		The whistleblowers, who are married, have already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of their life savings to pay their own lawyers and court costs in the battle that began shortly after the two were hired at WTVT in Tampa in 1996.
		Since filing the first-of-its-kind lawsuit, Akre has never again found full-time employment as a TV journalist, despite more than 20 years experience as an anchor and reporter in major cities and on CNN where she once anchored Headline News.
	www.thecorporation.com /index.php?page_id=42 (429 words)

	Vegan News - In the News
		Akre and Wilson, who are also married, were dismissed by WTVT Fox 13 in Miami in 1997 for refusing to suppress or distort evidence from a story they were working on that recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), manufactured by biotech giant Monsanto, alters milk in a way that could promote breast, colon and prostrate cancer.
		Their adventure began when Akre and Wilson, veteran journalists hired to do hard-hitting investigations, had a series of reports critical of rBGH abruptly pulled from the schedule in early 1997.
		Akre and Wilson have sold their home and spent their life savings in battling the media monolith.
	www.veganstreet.com /news/00_07_07.html (469 words)

	explodedlibrary.info
		Here's the full scoop: Jane Akre and Steve Wilson had produced an expose for WTVT/Fox News of Tampa about how Florida supermarkets were reneging on a promise not to sell hormone-laden milk from rBGH-injected cows.
		Fox ordered Akre to retract her story and do a slanted piece in favor of Monsanto, but Akre refused, on the grounds that it would be dishonest journalism.
		Akre sued, but a Florida appeals court has now ruled that it is technically not against any law, rule or regulation to deliberately lie or distort the news on a television broadcast.
	blogs.salon.com /0001429/2003/04/27.html (1662 words)

	Jane Akre - Moviefone
		Steve Wilson and Jane Akre vs Fox Television Stations attempts to coverup Bovine...
		Steve Wilson and Jane Akre vs Fox Television Stations attempts to coverup Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) story.
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	movies.aol.com /celebrity/jane-akre/380547/main (111 words)

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